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Most of my stories are in Scrivener with redundant cloud and external harddrive backups. And I use Aeon Timeline for branch and rules management.

Is it this one? https://chyoa.com/story/Time-Freeze.7606

"Slave" is one of the words that SmutMD blocks. "Todd" seems odd, but it might be because of what those four letters become if someone adds "ler" to the end. Just a theory.

Is this Fiction Community idea something you're still working on? The idea of an adult book marketplace piqued my interest. I'm about two weeks away from finishing the second draft of a nearly 100,000-word erotica novel. After that I want to send it to a non-judgemental copyeditor. I've been...

I don't really think about usernames too much unless they're offensive. But you're right, some usernames do broadcast what the person's stories are going to be about. I chose my name for two reasons. 1) I wanted to use something that was unrelated as possible to the usernames I use in both the...

When Prince William and Kate Middleton toured the Caribbean earlier this year it was fairly controversial. It came on the heels of Barbados leaving the British monarchy and becoming a republic. The tour was viewed as a publicity stunt by colonizers to stop other Caribbean nations from doing the...

All of these comments have been helpful and weirdly therapeutic! Basically, I should feel comfortable writing the length that bests suits the chapter and stop fretting about providing breaks. I appreciate all of you.

When have I ever done something like that? *quickly deletes five plus years of writing* Never.

I'm thinking about it since I ran that vote this weekend. I got people excited about the PowerPoint Party, but we still have two nights before we get to it. The current way I've been breaking up chapters it could be anywhere from six to ten chapters before we get to it. I should probably stick...

Do you think readers prefer long chapters or lots of breaks? For example, yesterday I wrote 2930 words that would make sense as a single chapter. I often worry a reader will open a chapter like that, see so much text, and nope out. I broke it down into three smaller chapters to give the sense...

She certainly SEEMS THAT WAY. Doesn't she?

This poll is closing and I think the results are mostly clear. Based on engagement (comments, likes, votes). I also added the chapter views. Not surprisingly, the chapters with the most views also had the most engagement : Tabitha and Kennedy: 19 (138) Ana Marie and Alfie: 14 (121) Mr. Sinclair...

Also, I'll work on cleaning up the typos. I was hurrying to get all four of these chapters finished before the weekend, so they're worse than usual.

I've been trying very hard to focus on finishing one thread without branching. However, I reached a very natural branching point and wasn't sure how to proceed, so, because I like to make things as complicated as humanly possible for myself (I don't really - my brain is a problem), I wrote four...

When I first read this I thought you were trying to remember what intestines were called. And this just took a very dark turn. 131. Large intestines.

Just isn't the same as flailing about tied up by a springy, coiled phone cord with the clunky handset potentially swinging around and smacking the victim.

Seeing 'unravelled VHS tape' and thinking about all of the 80s movies where kidnappers used phone cords to tie someone up. That isn't happening these days..

From a reader's perspective, if I really like the characters I tend to prefer lots of branching chapters and seeing alternate realities of the decisions they make. However, if the writer does a decent job of defining the journey with those characters I also don't mind threads with substantial...

Hard to remember. I think it was back when I was trying to build CHYOA style games using the RAGS system. It was a frustrating and slow process, so googled around for something simpler. Might have found CHYOO through Reddit?

This is where I'm at, too. I write several chapters in advance and then roll them out one by one each day. I try to avoid times and days I've determined are high publishing days, so my content will stay on the front page longer. I don't actually know if the front page works this way. :P...